When a game like Baldur's Gate 3 comes along—an enormous, hundred-hour RPG packed with detailed lore, locations, and a party full of fantasy misfits—there's one hobby we can all delight in between play sessions: passionately campaigning for our favorite party members. Baldur's Gate 3's companions deserve all the love they're getting for their nuanced personal stories and extreme thirst for your player character; hell, we even love the regular nice guy.
So with opinions flying, I forced the PC Gamer team to sit down and actually rank all the recruitable companions in the game. With our extremely scientific Baldur's Gate 3 Companion Ranking Engine (trademark not pending), our Baldur's players have rated each companion on four extremely official axes:
